A casualty of my switch from 12.4 to 13.2
has been my text display setting...where do
I have to go to make my 1920x1200 monitor
show 60+ lines of text again instead of 20+ ?

I set it in previous updates but this time I'm
still re-familiarizing.

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:26:20 +0000, Louis Epstein wrote:

A casualty of my switch from 12.4 to 13.2 has been my text display setting...where do I have to go to make my 1920x1200 monitor show 60+
lines of text again instead of 20+ ?

By text display are you meaning graphics virtual terminal, and the
bootconsole, before X enumerates and sets a display mode from the GPU? Are
you referring to non-raster mode?

Are you using vt(4) or syscons(4),sc(4)?

Taking a guess, I would drop to the prompt at the bootloader and see what resolutions are reported there, you can find out by typing 'gop list',
tho, that may only work for EFI hardware. I think there is also another
command for the bootloader to find display properties, it might be 'uga'?

If the 'gop list' command works, you can try and set a display mode from
that list, 'gop set <n>' where is n is the reference to the mode from the output of 'gop list'

When you have booted successfully with your your preferred mode, you can
make permanent changes to the bootloader, for example on my desktop:

$ cat /boot/loader.conf.d/efi.conf
efi_max_resolution="2560x1440"

$ cat /boot/loader.conf.d/kern.vt.conf
kern.vt.fb.default_mode="2560x1440"

2560x1440 just happens to be the native resolution for this host.

There are all raster modes, or graphics modes, not the old IBM VGA
textmode, tho, they are modelled on that textmode, however being able to
set a larger raster display size, the rows and columns increase to fill
the large pixel space.

--
To health and anarchy

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Alastair Hogge <agh@riseup.net> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:26:20 +0000, Louis Epstein wrote:

A casualty of my switch from 12.4 to 13.2 has been my text display
setting...where do I have to go to make my 1920x1200 monitor show 60+
lines of text again instead of 20+ ?

By text display are you meaning graphics virtual terminal, and the bootconsole, before X enumerates and sets a display mode from the GPU? Are you referring to non-raster mode?

Console sessions,not X windows.

Are you using vt(4) or syscons(4),sc(4)?

Taking a guess, I would drop to the prompt at the bootloader and see what resolutions are reported there, you can find out by typing 'gop list',

At my bash prompt "gop list" returns a message that gop is a command not found...someone else was suggesting I try vidcontrol but it didn't seem
to help.

tho, that may only work for EFI hardware. I think there is also another command for the bootloader to find display properties, it might be 'uga'?

If the 'gop list' command works, you can try and set a display mode from
that list, 'gop set <n>' where is n is the reference to the mode from the output of 'gop list'

When you have booted successfully with your your preferred mode, you can
make permanent changes to the bootloader, for example on my desktop:

$ cat /boot/loader.conf.d/efi.conf
efi_max_resolution="2560x1440"

$ cat /boot/loader.conf.d/kern.vt.conf
kern.vt.fb.default_mode="2560x1440"

Will look in my backup /boot for any promising conf.

2560x1440 just happens to be the native resolution for this host.

There are all raster modes, or graphics modes, not the old IBM VGA
textmode, tho, they are modelled on that textmode, however being able to
set a larger raster display size, the rows and columns increase to fill
the large pixel space.

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:20:34 +0000, Louis Epstein wrote:

Alastair Hogge <agh@riseup.net> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:26:20 +0000, Louis Epstein wrote:

A casualty of my switch from 12.4 to 13.2 has been my text display
setting...where do I have to go to make my 1920x1200 monitor show 60+
lines of text again instead of 20+ ?

By text display are you meaning graphics virtual terminal, and the
bootconsole, before X enumerates and sets a display mode from the GPU?
Are you referring to non-raster mode?

Console sessions,not X windows.

Are you using vt or syscons? The man pages for either should have some information to help you along.

Are you using vt(4) or syscons(4),sc(4)?

Taking a guess, I would drop to the prompt at the bootloader and see
what resolutions are reported there, you can find out by typing 'gop
list',

At my bash prompt "gop list" returns a message that gop is a command not found...someone else was suggesting I try vidcontrol but it didn't seem
to help.

gop is for the bootloader, this is before the kernel is booted, there is normally a menu with some ASCII graphics, and prompts for booting other kernels, booting with verbose information, and so on.

tho, that may only work for EFI hardware. I think there is also another
command for the bootloader to find display properties, it might be
'uga'?

If the 'gop list' command works, you can try and set a display mode
from that list, 'gop set <n>' where is n is the reference to the mode
from the output of 'gop list'

When you have booted successfully with your your preferred mode, you
can make permanent changes to the bootloader, for example on my
desktop:

$ cat /boot/loader.conf.d/efi.conf efi_max_resolution="2560x1440"

$ cat /boot/loader.conf.d/kern.vt.conf
kern.vt.fb.default_mode="2560x1440"

Will look in my backup /boot for any promising conf.

That is a file I added locally to customise that host with that display configuration, it is provided as an example for you to replicate.

2560x1440 just happens to be the native resolution for this host.

There are all raster modes, or graphics modes, not the old IBM VGA
textmode, tho, they are modelled on that textmode, however being able
to set a larger raster display size, the rows and columns increase to
fill the large pixel space.

--
To health and anarchy

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

Alastair Hogge <agh@riseup.net> wrote:

On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:20:34 +0000, Louis Epstein wrote:

Alastair Hogge <agh@riseup.net> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:26:20 +0000, Louis Epstein wrote:

A casualty of my switch from 12.4 to 13.2 has been my text display
setting...where do I have to go to make my 1920x1200 monitor show 60+
lines of text again instead of 20+ ?

By text display are you meaning graphics virtual terminal, and the
bootconsole, before X enumerates and sets a display mode from the GPU?
Are you referring to non-raster mode?

Console sessions,not X windows.

Are you using vt or syscons? The man pages for either should have some information to help you along.

Are you using vt(4) or syscons(4),sc(4)?

Taking a guess, I would drop to the prompt at the bootloader and see
what resolutions are reported there, you can find out by typing 'gop
list',

At my bash prompt "gop list" returns a message that gop is a command not
found...someone else was suggesting I try vidcontrol but it didn't seem
to help.

gop is for the bootloader, this is before the kernel is booted, there is normally a menu with some ASCII graphics, and prompts for booting other kernels, booting with verbose information, and so on.

tho, that may only work for EFI hardware. I think there is also another
command for the bootloader to find display properties, it might be
'uga'?

If the 'gop list' command works, you can try and set a display mode
from that list, 'gop set <n>' where is n is the reference to the mode
from the output of 'gop list'

When you have booted successfully with your your preferred mode, you
can make permanent changes to the bootloader, for example on my
desktop:

$ cat /boot/loader.conf.d/efi.conf efi_max_resolution="2560x1440"

$ cat /boot/loader.conf.d/kern.vt.conf
kern.vt.fb.default_mode="2560x1440"

Will look in my backup /boot for any promising conf.

That is a file I added locally to customise that host with that display configuration, it is provided as an example for you to replicate.

2560x1440 just happens to be the native resolution for this host.

There are all raster modes, or graphics modes, not the old IBM VGA
textmode, tho, they are modelled on that textmode, however being able
to set a larger raster display size, the rows and columns increase to
fill the large pixel space.

This problem has gone away (I am back to a small font
taking over in the middle of multi-use boot-up) without
any deliberate action being the cause.

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:

Alastair Hogge <agh@riseup.net> wrote:

On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:20:34 +0000, Louis Epstein wrote:

Alastair Hogge <agh@riseup.net> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:26:20 +0000, Louis Epstein wrote:

A casualty of my switch from 12.4 to 13.2 has been my text display
setting...where do I have to go to make my 1920x1200 monitor show 60+ >>>>> lines of text again instead of 20+ ?

By text display are you meaning graphics virtual terminal, and the
bootconsole, before X enumerates and sets a display mode from the GPU? >>>> Are you referring to non-raster mode?

Console sessions,not X windows.

Are you using vt or syscons? The man pages for either should have some
information to help you along.

Are you using vt(4) or syscons(4),sc(4)?

Taking a guess, I would drop to the prompt at the bootloader and see
what resolutions are reported there, you can find out by typing 'gop
list',

At my bash prompt "gop list" returns a message that gop is a command not >>> found...someone else was suggesting I try vidcontrol but it didn't seem
to help.

gop is for the bootloader, this is before the kernel is booted, there is
normally a menu with some ASCII graphics, and prompts for booting other
kernels, booting with verbose information, and so on.

tho, that may only work for EFI hardware. I think there is also another >>>> command for the bootloader to find display properties, it might be
'uga'?

If the 'gop list' command works, you can try and set a display mode
from that list, 'gop set <n>' where is n is the reference to the mode
from the output of 'gop list'

When you have booted successfully with your your preferred mode, you
can make permanent changes to the bootloader, for example on my
desktop:

$ cat /boot/loader.conf.d/efi.conf efi_max_resolution="2560x1440"

$ cat /boot/loader.conf.d/kern.vt.conf
kern.vt.fb.default_mode="2560x1440"

Will look in my backup /boot for any promising conf.

That is a file I added locally to customise that host with that display
configuration, it is provided as an example for you to replicate.

2560x1440 just happens to be the native resolution for this host.

There are all raster modes, or graphics modes, not the old IBM VGA
textmode, tho, they are modelled on that textmode, however being able
to set a larger raster display size, the rows and columns increase to
fill the large pixel space.

This problem has gone away (I am back to a small font
taking over in the middle of multi-use boot-up) without
any deliberate action being the cause.

The point at which the font shrinks is loading kernel modules.

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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